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The Psychopath Test | What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the...

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain | Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears. In seven short ...

Fake Law | THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful polemic Sunday Times A compelling, eye-opening read Daily Express - Did an illegal immigrant avoid deportation because he had a cat? - Is the ...

What Belongs to You | On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom ...

The Master | In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The re...

The Sealed Letter | Helen Codrington is unhappily married. Emily 'Fido' Faithfull hasn't seen her once-dear friend for years. Suddenly, after bumping into Helen on the streets of Victorian London, Fid...

Selection Day | Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father,...

Exhalation | From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others - the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival - comes a groundbreaking second collection of short fiction: nine stu...

Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me | Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020. The best book on teachers and children and writing that Ive ever read. No-one has said better so muc...

Pandoras Jar : Women in the Greek Myths | The Greek myths are among the world’s most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable...

Savage Kiss | Roberto Saviano returns to the streets of Naples and the boy bosses who run them in Savage Kiss, the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Piranhas, the bestselling novel and major motion p...

Lovecraft Country | Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle Ge...

The River of Consciousness | Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The best-selling author of On the Move, Music...

Patrick Melrose. Volume 2 | Patrick Melrose Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyns semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristo...

On the Move: A Life | When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped g...

The Luckiest Guy Alive | 'The godfather of British performance poetry' - Daily Telegraph The Luckiest Guy Alive is the first new book of poetry from Dr John Cooper Clarke for several decades - and a b...

Zero K | Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled.He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother, Artis, w...

The Ministry Of Truth | George Orwell’s 1984 has become a defining narrative of the modern world. Its cultural influence can be observed in some of the most notable creations of the past seventy years...

Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. With an introduction by Will Self. If a man has ...

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas | The number one Sunday Times bestseller – with a new, fantastically festive front cover! Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diar...

Machiavelli: His Life and Times | Thanks to his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thou...

So You ve Been Publicly Shamed | For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made ...

Saint X | Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night of her family’s vacation. Several days ...

The Last Days of New Paris | A thriller of a war that never was - of survival in an impossible city - of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Mieville entwines true historical event...

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking colla...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack | Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimi...

Lucky | In Lucky, a memoir long-hailed for its blistering honesty and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was irrevocably changed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was raped and b...

Akin | A retired New York professor’s life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother’s wartime secrets. Noah is only days away fr...

The Confession | One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel...

The Doll Factory | Sunday Times Bestseller - BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick - BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime The intoxicating story of one woman's dreams of freedom in Victorian England and the man whose obs...

The Paper Lovers | Arnold Proctor’s quiet life is thrown off balance when he falls obsessively in love with Vera, a religious woman and one of his wife’s friends. Vera seems untroubled by her wrongdoi...

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It`s Broken | You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or someone you love will almost certainly appear in a criminal courtroom. You might b...

Emperor of the Eight Islands | An ambitious warlord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands.A stubborn father forces his younger son to surrender his wife to his older brother.A mysterious wom...

American War | A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE GUARDIAN, THE OBSERVER, NEW YORK TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE , THE WASHINGTON POST. 2074.AMERICA’S FUTURE IS CIVIL WAR.SARAT’S REALITY IS SURVIVAL.THEY T...

Robots & Vegan Meat | What if we could have babies without having to bear children, eat meat without killing animals, have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise or choose the time of ...

The Economists’ Hour | The story of the economists who championed the rise of free markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world. As the post-World War II economic boom began to falter in the la...

The Sculptress | This Picador Classic edition of Minette Walters’ The Sculptress features an introduction by Stephanie Merritt, journalist and author of While You Sleep.‘It was a slaughterhouse, the m...

War Doctor | A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones for more than twenty years. For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from h...

Lover | Kate is smart, successful and adept at making people feel at home: her husband Adam, her children, the guests of the hotel chain she works for. But her own foundations are about to be knocked ...

Trading Futures | This is Matthew Oxenhay at sixty: a stranger to his wife, an embarrassment to his children, and failed former contender for the top job at his City firm. Seizing on his birthday part...

Love May Fail | Portia Kane has escaped her cheating husband only to find herself back at square one, living with her mom in a place she thought shed left behind for ever. Lost and alone, looking to f...

Cleanness | Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, unrelenting winds lash the city, political protesters flood the streets with song. Amid this di...

A Nest of Vipers | On what should be a quiet Sunday morning, Inspector Montalbano is called to a murder scene on the Sicilian coast. A man has discovered his father dead in his Vigatan beach house: hi...

Mobile Library | The breakout second novel from the award-winning author of Bed, for fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and Little Miss Sunshine. Код номенклатуры: ORS6749924936...

Funny Weather | Never has a publication been more timely - Dazed A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art - Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of ess...

The Hiding Place | Dolores is the youngest of six daughters. Growing up in the 1960s in Cardiff's poverty stricken Tiger Bay, her life is cursed from the start when, on the day of her birth, her fathe...

Three Moments of an Explosion | Stories. Glistening icebergs float above urban horizons; a burning stag runs wild through the city; the ruins of industry emerge unsteadily from the sea; and the abando...

Bridget Jones s The Edge of Reason (мягк). Fielding H. (Логосфера) | The Wilderness Years are over. But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man...

Everything in Its Place | In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life - both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath c...

A Place For Everything. The Curious History of Alphabetical Order | Once we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order of the a...

The River of Consciousness | In his previous books, Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain and mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders. Recently, ...

Room | A major film starring Brie Larson Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Orange Prize Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have t...

A History of England. Volume V. Dominion | The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd’s masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo giv...

Frog Music | San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City.Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exo...

The Muse | On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in th...

The Patrick Melrose Novels | NOW COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL FIVE INSTALMENTS OF EDWARD ST. AUBYN'S CELEBRATED PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most ...

Ithaca | Summer 2009, and eleven-year-old Jason Lowry is preoccupied with thoughts of the Da he has never known. In the meantime, his vodka-swilling, swings-from-the-hip Ma is busy entertaining her la...

Chicago | On the last day of summer, some years ago, a young college graduate moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the vast and muscular lake. This is the sto...

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs | 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur ...

Blood Meridian | With an introduction by Philipp Meyer. The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Set in the a...

Death at Sea | From the title story, Death at Sea, in which the alleged manslaughter of an engineer upon a fishing trawler leads Inspector Montalbano to uncover an even more sinister crime, Andrea Cam...

I Wanna Be Yours | 'One of Britain's outstanding poets' Sir Paul McCartney 'Riveting' Observer 'An exuberant account of a remarkable life' New Statesman This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivi...

Men Who Stare at Goats | In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known military practice - and indeed the laws of physics - they believed that a ...

The Piranhas | In Naples, a new kind of gang rules the streets: the ‘Paranze’, the ‘Children’s Gangs’, groups of teenage boys who divide their time between Facebook or playing Call of Duty on their Pl...